21.   Shalala, a former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is exploring the foundation world.

22.   She replaces Joseph Deck, a UMass-Dartmouth professor and former chancellor who has served as interim vice president for the last year.

23.   The former chancellor has said he cannot break the promise he gave anonymous donors that their identities would not be revealed.

24.   The former chancellor spent much of his time in New York clashing with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani over budget and security issues.

25.   The former chancellor has been involved in a party financing scandal that has damaged his opposition Christian Democratic Party.

26.   The new investigation is not directly related to the growing investigation into whether Elf helped finance the political party of Helmut Kohl, the former German chancellor.

27.   The party is facing heavy punitive fines for its actions, and so one course might be to sue the former chancellor for damages.

28.   When the scheming Franz von Papen, a former chancellor desperate to return to power, decided to play kingmaker with Hitler, the fate of Germany was sealed.

29.   A lawyer for Kohl, Stephan Holthoff-Pfoertner, rejected charges that the former chancellor was applying a double standard.

30.   Bonn prosecutors are already investigating possible criminal charges against Kohl and two former aides, but that probe involves later illegal donations which the former chancellor has admitted.